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Originally Posted by mickp
I thought the donkey steps ran from Perth Street to the Globe Bowling club .Just below Bullough park.
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I think we are talking about the same Donkey Steps.
To get to Bullough Park from where I lived on Higher Antley St., I walked up Major St. onto Perth St. turning left then up between the end of some terraced houses and I think a row of bungalows. Here you got onto the Donkey Steps (very long steps probably 2 metres with a hand rail running up the middle, very good for swinging on and hanging upside down) On either side of the Donkey Steps where pens (allotments) and on Sundays you could buy cut flowers, eggs and some fresh veg. At the top of the Donkey Steps you came to a very high red brick wall, with the Globe private bowling green on the other side. If you turn left and followed the high red brick wall, which took you across the top of Riley’s Hill, it lead you to the lower part of the wall that gdm27 talked about. If you continued straight on from the top of the Donkey Steps, now a cinder track with the high red brick wall on your left and wooden garages on your right you came to the track/road from Willows Lane that was the main entrance to Bullough Park and the play ground where as kids we were generally heading.